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Thursday, 1 December 2011

Tree's Up

Well the tree's up for another year. This is a job that my daughter and I do together (it obviously doesn't appeal to the males in the house). We have so much fun doing this together.

We start by putting on Christmas music, then assembling the tree. Once the tree's up, we untangle the string of 600 lights, turn them on and wrap them round the tree. In London, we bought a real tree and it smelled divine. Here in Brisbane, a freshly cut tree wouldn't last long in the heat, so I bought the most real looking artificial tree I could find.

The big baubles are always the first decoration we put on the tree.

Once they are on, we fill the gaps with all the little decorations.

When all the decorations are on, we put the star on top.

Finally we assemble the railway track that runs around the bottom of the tree.

We've had the train since the kids were little. It plays annoyingly loud Christmas music but the kids love it.

Is your tree up yet? Do you wait until 1st December, or sneak it up a little earlier?

Your tree is beautiful! My 4 boys all like to help decorate the tree but, being boys, they don't have much of a decorating flair. Once they are asleep I go and change things around a bit! Bad - I know - but they don't seem to notice. x Sharon

hi Kylie - we will put our tree up this weekend as my husband loves getting involved (and it's up in our roof cavity and i can't get it down myself). im allergic to real pine trees so we also have a fake one. your daughter is so cute! and your tree looks great.have funcheers Fiona

Kylie, I think we are going out this weekend to get our living tree. We have a fake one at home in Melbourne...in fact we've never had a fresh cut one in Australia...but here it's so much fun. My 21 year old son, who is staying with us, can't wait to go out with me to get it. I must admit, I really love the idea of it too...and as you say, they last much longer here in this climate. Yours looks lovely...I love the colour scheme! Robx

Your tree is just beautiful! Your home looks so inviting and lovely. We put our tree up this weekend which is a little later than usual for us - we usually put it up the first Sunday of Advent. I will post pics soon on my blog. God bless x